Top Comedian Quotes Collection
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When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it.Collection: Comedian
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.Collection: Comedian
I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.Collection: Comedian
Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.Collection: Comedian
Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.Collection: Comedian
Architects are the new comedians.Collection: Comedian
Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.Collection: Comedian
If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.Collection: Comedian
Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.Collection: Comedian
It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.Collection: Comedian
In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.Collection: Comedian
I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.Collection: Comedian
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.Collection: Comedian
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.Collection: Comedian
It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.Collection: Comedian
Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.Collection: Comedian
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.Collection: Comedian
Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson and Russell Peters, [who] are unbelievably famous, but in a way they're selling out 1,000-person stadiums.Collection: Comedian
Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.Collection: Comedian
I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.Collection: Comedian
Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.Collection: Comedian
When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.Collection: Comedian
A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.Collection: Comedian
Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it.Collection: Comedian
Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.Collection: Comedian
I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.Collection: Comedian
A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.Collection: Comedian
What's the good thing about being an actor, you can do more things. Not just being a comedian, not going overboard but expressing myself within the confines of a film.Collection: Comedian
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographerCollection: Comedian
Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.Collection: Comedian
I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.Collection: Comedian
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.Collection: Comedian
Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.Collection: Comedian
I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.Collection: Comedian
There are way too many comedians now.Collection: Comedian
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thingCollection: Comedian
One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.Collection: Comedian
I like LA because it has a giant supply of great comedians.Collection: Comedian
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.Collection: Comedian
Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.Collection: Comedian
I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.Collection: Comedian
Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.Collection: Comedian
I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.Collection: Comedian
I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.Collection: Comedian
Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.Collection: Comedian
I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.Collection: Comedian
Good comedians are great philosophers.Collection: Comedian
What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.Collection: Comedian
I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.Collection: Comedian